Bible Verses About Oil
Bible verses about Oil
Discover what the Bible says about oil.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
[The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were] they drawn swords.
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And wine [that] maketh glad the heart of man, [and] oil to make [his] face to shine, and bread [which] strengtheneth man's heart.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their calamities.
[There is] a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
And went to [him], and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
But my horn shalt thou exalt like [the horn of] an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] a honey-comb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
They that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil: for our lamps are gone out.
My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
And Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink-offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring the pure olive-oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil; [of] wheat flour shalt thou make them.
And thou shalt take of the blood that [is] upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons garments with him.
And with the one lamb a tenth-portion of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine [for] a drink-offering.
And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil to me, throughout your generations.
And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy [place]: according to all that I have commanded thee, shall they do.
And the incense-altar, and its staffs, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle,
And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
The pure candlestick, [with] its lamps, [even with] the lamps to be set in order, and all its vessels, and the oil for light,
And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle-door,
And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that [is] in it, and shalt hallow it, and all its vessels: and it shall be holy.
And when any will offer a meat-offering to the LORD, his offering shall be [of] fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense upon it.
And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take out of it his handful of its flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, [to be] an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to the LORD:
And if thou shalt bring an oblation of a meat-offering baked in the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
And if thy oblation [shall be] a meat-offering [baked] in a pan, it shall be [of] fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
And if thy oblation [shall be] a meat-offering [baked] in the frying-pan, it shall be made [of] fine flour with oil.
And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, [part] of its beaten corn, and [part] of its oil, with all its frankincense: [it is] an offering made by fire to the LORD.
But if he shall not be able to bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons; then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put [any] frankincense upon it: for it [is] a sin-offering.
And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat-offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which [is] upon the meat-offering, and shall burn [it] upon the altar [for] a sweet savor, [even] the memorial of it, to the LORD.
In a pan it shall be made with oil; [and when it is] baked, thou shalt bring it in: [and] the baked pieces of the meat-offering shalt thou offer [for] a sweet savor to the LORD.
And every meat-offering mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one [as much] as another.
If he shall offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin-offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;